Non-Narrative Illustration: A Market For My Items

One very important thing that I must consider, now that all of my criteria of the brief has been fulfilled, is where my items could fit in he market.

I will start first by talking about locations that the album, featuring my design, could be sold in.

Album:

There are multiple ways that I could get my album to market. Firstly, I will state that this is all hypothetical, as I don't own the rights to Kate Bush's music, but for the sake of this blog, lets say that I somehow do have the rights.

If I wanted to get my vinyl into production, I would need to contact a company that specialises in vinyl production. There are multiple companies that I could go to, and below I will list a few of them.

Breed Media < http://www.breedmedia.co.uk

http://www.breedmedia.co.uk/product/12-inch-vinyl-pressing-printed-sleeves < image reference at this link.

DMS <

http://www.discmanufacturingservices.com/vinyl-home.htm < image reference at this link.

GZ Media < http://www.gzmedia.com

http://www.gzmedia.com/Technical-support/Technical-conditions/Technical-conditions/Vinyl-record.aspx < image reference at this link.

Lets say, for example I wanted to produce a bulk of 3000 copies of my vinyl album, complete with packaging.
In order to get a price quote, I would need to contact a chosen company from my list.

Once receiving a quote, I could go ahead with production, and after paying the fee, and submitting my designs with bleeds, they would take care of the rest.

There are many different retail outlets that I could sell the album in.
For example, such physical stores, including HMV, major supermarkets, record shops, and other small media stores.

http://static1.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/a_scale_large/1800-4/photos/1361016953-66-hmv-stores-set-to-close-in-uk_1801264.jpg < image reference at this link.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2013/1/18/1358519155056/HMV-008.jpg < image reference at this link.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Lifeandhealth/Pix/pictures/2006/12/21/9DanChung.jpg < image reference at this link.

Physical outlets offer less choice, however when looking into the realm of the online outlets, the locations where the album could be sold increases immensely.

Such online site such as Amazon, ebay, Zavvi, online websites operated by traditional retail outlets, there are just too many locations to list.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/music-rock-classical-pop-jazz/b?ie=UTF8&node=229816 < image reference at this link.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Music-/11233/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1 < image reference at this link.

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Editorial Illustration:

My final editorial with a 5mm bleed.

In order to get my editorial illustration to be used in an editorial, (whether online or in a traditional newspaper), I would need to become an editorial illustrator.

http://www.creativebloq.com/career/become-editorial-illustrator-121310155 < image reference at this link.

http://www.creativebloq.com/career/become-editorial-illustrator-121310155

The link above has great info on how to become part of the field, which is broken down into 5 steps.
It is a very informative weblink, that goes in depth.

My editorial illustration is music based, as it is based on 'Hounds Of Love'.
Therefore my editorial illustration will be part of a musical editorial. These are very common in music magazines, as this format is a dedicated toward music.

Such music magazines, include the following below.

Mojo Magazine.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPh9OSlCqUvSyFPMBKFcGSkb0bzYAZ0Tlmnb-6U7m20Y1biAy0T3M0w4SyQgj3-FR2Ph0nAMp-FjNgQBaH_tmOAWNaJ942ju_pxlsjIkpgkBSO46ZpZ8AD2KWnrG1ujgZZ6zN7A5RDSa4/s1600/2011.jpg < image reference at this link.

http://www.ukmagz.co.uk/magz/Q%20.jpg < image reference at this link.

Such music oriented editorials based online, can be seen noted below.

http://www.qthemusic.com < image reference at this link.

http://pitchfork.com < image reference at this link.

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Poster:

Poster with bleed, if you look you can see guidelines in each corner.

My poster could be sold alongside the album in retail, and could also be used as a form of advertisement, promoting the album.
My A2 poster could be sold in such stores as HMV, WHSmith, (as they sell posters too), and could also be sold online through such online outlets as eBay, and amazon.

http://www.whsmith.co.uk < image reference at this link.

http://www.lowcostdisplays.co.uk/avactis-images/poster-tubes.jpg < image reference at this link.

Like with discussing where my album could be sold online, the list of locations that could sell the poster is just far too long to mention, the internet is global, with millions of different outlets to choose from. This is good news for my poster, and other products however, as this means that there is a huge audience.